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Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities (eBook, PDF)

Nursing Complex Needs

Redaktion: Pawlyn, Jillian; Carnaby, Steven

Beschreibung

PROFOUND INTELLECTUAL AND MULTIPLE DISABILITIES Nursing Complex Needs Children and adults with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) are among the most marginalised people in society. They have some of the highest support needs and are most reliant on services. This accessible and practical text presents and promotes current best practice regarding interventions to meet the complex health needs of a person with profound and multiple learning disabilities. Divided into two sections, Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities first looks at assessing complex needs, exploring topics such as communication, maintaining health, and quality of life. Part two then discusses meeting complex needs, looking at topics such as mental health problems, epilepsy, vision impairment, aural health, respiratory health, nutrition, and dysphagia. KEY FEATURES: * Examines current theory and practice in supporting people with profound and multiple learning disabilities and/or complex needs * Identifies the key knowledge and skills required by learning disability nurses and other health care professionals * Provides evidence-based best-practice guidelines about caring for people with PMLD * Offers insights into parent carer and professional carer experiences

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Autor

Derek Collins is an Associate Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan. He has written extensively on Greek poetry and its performance, including Master of the Game: Competition and Performance in Greek Poetry (2005). Collins has also published on Greek divination and magic, including articles on bird divination, the criminalization of magic in Athens, and the intellectual background to classical Greek magic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444301533
• Artikelnr.: 38308345

Rezensionen

Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Award 2008

"Collins, associate professor of Greek and Latin at theUniversity of Michigan, and author of Master of the Game:Competition and Performance in Greek Poetry (2005), seeks tointroduce nonspecialists to areas of Greek magic, cover thehighpoints of scholarly consensus, and offer new interpretativeframeworks for understanding select Greek magical practices."(New Testament Abstracts, January 2009)

"If you want to understand how the Ancient Greeks practised andviewed the magical arts then this book is highly recommended."(The Cauldron)

"Lots of interesting details, brilliant, clear chapters,great insights, and connections. There is a wealth of informationand ... fascinating little bits of trivia."(About.com)

"This is not simply a rehash of previously coveredmaterial. Collins covers a range of magical practices ... .Thisbook is an important new addition to studies of ancient magic.Present[s] the reader with a full context for any discussion ofmagical practices. Collins achieves this without becoming boggeddown in a discussion of terminology ... which can sometimesderail other studies. The focus on Greek magic centres the bookwith a clear methodology of always bringing the discussion back tothe Greek origins of the magic in question." (RosettaPapers)